Forsyth, Kate

Summary: Set in Crete during World War II, Alenka, a young woman who fights with the resistance against the brutal Nazi occupation finds herself caught between her traitor of a brother and the man she loves, an undercover agent working for the Allies. May 1941. German paratroopers launch a blitzkrieg from the air against Crete. They are met with fierce defiance, the Greeks fighting back with daggers,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Kirsanow, Peter N.

Summary: Dick Canidy and the agents of the OSS scour war-torn Poland looking for a rocket scientist who holds the secrets to the Nazis' most dangerous weapon in this entry in W.E.B. Griffin's New York Times bestselling Men at War series.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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McMorris, Kristina

Summary: Escape artist Fenna Vos is recruited by British intelligence and tasked with creating escape tools to thwart the Germans. But delving deeper into the fray also means confronting the past she has kept hidden.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Winspear, Jacqueline

Summary: September 1941. While on a delivery, young Freddie Hackett, a message runner for a government office, witnesses an argument that ends in murder. Crouching in the doorway of a bombed-out house, Freddie waits until the coast is clear. But when he arrives at the delivery address, he's shocked to come face to face with the killer. Dismissed by the police when he attempts to report the crime,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2021

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Scottoline, Lisa

Summary: Elisabetta, Marco, and Sandro grow up as the best of friends despite their differences. Elisabetta is a feisty beauty who dreams of becoming a novelist; Marco the brash and athletic son in a family of professional cyclists; and Sandro a Jewish mathematics prodigy, kind-hearted and thoughtful, the son of a lawyer and a doctor. Their friendship blossoms to love, with both Sandro and Marco hoping...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2021

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Quinn, Kate

Summary: 1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything, but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl. Imperious self-made Mab, works the legendary codebreaking machines as she...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2021

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Steel, Danielle

Summary: As the war rages on in the summer of 1943, causing massive destruction andwidespread fear, the King and Queen choose to quietly send their youngest daughter, Princess Charlotte, to live with a trusted noble family in the country. Despite her fiery, headstrong nature, the princess's fragile health poses far too great a risk for her to remain in war-torn London. Third in line for the throne,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020

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Steel, Danielle

Summary: "At eighteen, Alexandra Wickham is presented to King George V and Queen Mary in an exquisite white lace and satin dress her mother has ordered from Paris. With her delicate blond looks, she is a stunning beauty who seems destined for a privileged life. But fate, a world war, and her own quietly rebellious personality lead her down a different path. By 1939, Europe is on fire and England is at...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019

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Jenoff, Pam

Summary: Inspired by true events, this novel tells a remarkable story of friendship and courage centered around three women and a ring of female secret agents during World War II.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Liardet, Frances

Summary: In the disorderly evacuation of Southampton, England, newly married Ellen Parr finds a small child asleep on the backseat of an empty bus. No one knows who little Pamela is. Ellen professed not to want children with her older husband, and when she takes Pamela into her home and rapidly into her heart, she discovers that this is true: Ellen doesn't want children. She wants only Pamela. Three...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Benn, James R.

Summary: A double murder in a French chateau just after D-Day threatens Allied operations, and US Army detective Billy Boyle is called to investigate. July, 1944, a full month after D-Day. Billy, Kaz, and Big Mike are assigned to investigate a double murder, close to the front lines in Normandy. An American officer and a member of the French Resistance were found dead in a manor house outside the town...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018

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McCall Smith, Alexander

Summary: Val Eliot, a young woman working on an English farm during the war, meets Mike, a U.S. Air Force pilot stationed nearby. When Val rescues a Border Collie named Peter Woodhouse, who is being mistreated by his owner, she realizes the dog would actually be safer with Mike. And so Peter Woodhouse finds a new home on the air force base, and Val finds herself falling in love. Peter Woodhouse becomes...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018

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Ondaatje, Michael

Summary: In a narrative as beguiling and mysterious as memory itself--shadowed and luminous at once--we follow the story of fourteen-year-old Nathaniel, and his older sister, Rachel. In 1945, just after World War II, they stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and they grow both more...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2018

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Grant, Richard

Summary: A gripping novel of historical espionage, about an eleventh-hour attempt by members of the German elite to unseat Adolf Hitler, and its endlessly complex consequences.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Allende, Isabel

Summary: "From internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende comes an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from present-day San Francisco to Poland and the United States during WWII. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis and the world goes to war, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2015

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Flagg, Fannie.

Summary: "Spanning decades, generations, and America in the 1940s and today, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion is a fun-loving mystery about an Alabama woman today, and five women who in 1943 worked in a Phillips 66 gas station, during the WWII years. Like Fannie Flagg's classic Fried Green Tomatoes, this is a riveting, fun story of two families, set in present day America and during World War...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2013

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Higgins, Jack

Summary: In 1992, the wreck of Nazi leader Martin Bormann's submarine is discovered in the Caribbean, along with a secret list of Nazi sympathizers. The names include high-level citizens from the U.S. and Great Britain, but the evidence is at the bottom of the sea. The British government turns to its greatest enemy for help, infamous terrorist Sean Dillon.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012

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Sundin, Sarah.

Summary: Lt. Mellie Blake is a nurse serving in the 802nd Medical Squadron, Air Evacuation, Transport. As part of a morale building program, she reluctantly enters into an anonymous correspondence with Lt. Tom MacGilliver, an officer in the 908th Engineer Aviation Battalion in North Africa. As their letters crisscross the Atlantic, Tom and Mellie develop a unique friendship despite not knowing the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012

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Wein, Elizabeth.

Summary: In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Bolinda Audio 2012

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Follett, Ken.

Summary: This novel picks up right where the first book left off, as its five interrelated families, American, German, Russian, English, Welsh, enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs. Carla von Ulrich,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2012

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Archer, Jeffrey

Summary: Only days before Britain declares war on Germany, Harry Clifton, hoping to escape the consequences of long-buried family secrets, and forced to accept that his desire to marry Emma Barrington will never be fulfilled, has joined the Merchant Navy. After his ship is sunk, Harry seizes on the chance to escape his tangled past by assuming the identity of an American officer.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 2012

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Doig, Ivan.

Summary: Ivan Doig crafts an epic tale of 11 college football teammates confronting World War II. Eager to serve, TSU's champion athletes are stationed across the globe in various theaters. But one of them, Ben Reinking, is recruited by the propaganda machine to follow his former teammates and write their heroic stories for small-town newspapers across America.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008

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Griffin, W. E. B.

Summary: Recruited by Wild Bill Donovan to set up an airline that will be an OSS front in 1943 Argentina, Marine pilot Cletus Frade monitors two German operations, including a concentration-camp smuggling ring and a Nazi protection group.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2008

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